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fsi.stanford.eduSusan Sawyer | Australia's new social media legislation: the world is

Join us on Oct. 27 as our #FallSeminarSeries continues with a talk by Susan Sawyer. Prof. Sawyer will share research on the links between #SocialMedia and youth mental health, and what has (and what hasn't) changed as a result of Australia's #SMMA legislation. RSVP to join us in person or online!

New in @nathealth.nature.com, TIP Center Postdoctoral Scholar @matthewdeverna.com and co-authors outline the unseen risks of #AI generated #health information and offer recommendations for improving transparency, mitigating harm, and fostering accountability. 🔗 go.nature.com/4B4sTRn

In August, we hosted 23 scholars at the second annual Summer Institute in #ComputationalSocialScience at Stanford. Explore our 2026 #SICSS-Stanford recap for takeaways from @rer.bsky.social and @matthewdeverna.com, and stay tuned for details about next year’s institute! 🔗 stanford.io/4zMQzs9

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leaflet.pubReflections from the Trust and Safety Research Conference at Stanford!Brief TL:DR from TRSC 2026

TL:DR from @techimpactpolicy.bsky.social and #OaklandTechWeek

People increasingly turn to #AI systems to make sense of the news and to answer questions about their #health. What happens when the answers we get about #politics and our own health come from AI?

tip.fsi.stanford.eduMatt DeVerna | Between You and the Facts (IN-PERSON ONLY)

Together, these studies shed light on when #AI helps people separate fact from fiction, where it falls short, and what this means for the growing number of people who rely on it. Stanford affiliates are invited to join us on campus for this in-person seminar ⤵️

nature.comThe invisible risks of AI-generated health information - Nature HealthThis Perspective describes the pathways in which users access health information via AI-based chatbots and highlights the related risks, advocating for making these interactions observable and account...

For more on this topic, read a new perspective piece by Matt and co-authors about the invisible risks of AI-generated health information, via @nathealth.nature.com:

People increasingly turn to #AI systems to make sense of the news and to answer questions about their #health. What happens when the answers we get about #politics and our own health come from AI?

Our Fall Seminar Series continues on Tuesday, October 20 with a talk by @matthewdeverna.com, TIP Center postdoctoral scholar. Matt will present two projects on #AI and political #factchecking, as well as ongoing work examining how six AI systems respond to general health questions.

Join us on Tuesday, October 13 as our #FallSeminarSeries kicks off with a talk by Anthony Chen, postdoctoral scholar at the Tech Impact and Policy Center! 🔗 stanford.io/3VWPcIB

Policy on young people and #technology has gained momentum, on the assumption that what adolescents do online is the problem to be removed. This talk starts from the opposite premise: young people turn to tech to meet the developmental needs that define #adolescence, their identity, and more.

fsi.stanford.eduAnthony Chen | What Young People's Technology Use Tells Us

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SemicolonExpected OwO

@semicolonexpected.bsky.social

One of the coolest things about JoTS #TSRConf is that it’s interdisciplinary and STEMmy, but also interested in qualitative work. Other events Ive been to that had such a wide breadth of fields in attendance were definite more catered to quant and prototypes/biomed @techimpactpolicy.bsky.social

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Dilrukshi Gamage

@dilrukshilk.bsky.social

Thank you so much @techimpactpolicy.bsky.social for amazing another version of Trust and Safety Conference where important discussions bring under one roof.

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📌 Deepfakes in the Global South: Understanding Stakeholder Perceptions, Harms, and Governance Challenges in Sri Lanka, India, and Bangladesh By Dilrukshi Gamage (@dilrukshilk.bsky.social), Dilki Sewwandi, Shreeti Shubham, Sumaia Arefin, Dilaxshini Dunstan, Kartik Joshi, and Rashmi Gunawardana

tsjournal.org Deepfakes in the Global South: Understanding Stakeholder Perceptions, Harms, and Governance Challenges in Sri Lanka, India, and Bangladesh | Journal of Online Trust and Safety Journal of Online Trust and Safety

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🙇🏽‍♀️my brain > @techimpactpolicy.bsky.social thank you!!!!!! Presenting my research and my work with @blackskyweb.xyz is always heart work.

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Ryan J. Gallagher

@ryanjgallag.com

Excited to be at the Trust & Safety Research Conference at Stanford! If you want to chat, I have plenty to say about detection and policy for frauds and scams, impersonation, covert influence operations, and everything else related to online deception and coordination #TSRConf

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Jason Hiner

@jasonhiner.bsky.social

I’m at Stanford today and tomorrow learning from researchers from all over the world about what they are learning about AI safety, ethics, and governance. #tsrconf

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Jason Hiner

@jasonhiner.bsky.social

"AI agents are being integrated into people's lives before anyone has built the infrastructure to truly hold them accountable. There's growing gap between what these systems can do and what people affected by them are able to understand." —Anya Svan at Stanford #tsrconf

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SemicolonExpected OwO

I did not expect my title slide of my presentation at #TSRConf to get so many laughs. If anyone wanted to see this slide again to identify all the easter eggs (like there being no like button) here it is. For all those who weren’t able to attend the live talk, i gotchu, this will be a Youtube video.

As #TSRConf kicks off, the Journal of Online Trust and Safety is excited to release the 2026 Trust and Safety Research Conference Proceedings! This new issue brings together five commentaries and four research articles exploring key questions and issues in #TrustAndSafety. 🔗 bit.ly/4zdofPq

“It Doesn’t Violate Our Community Standards”: Examining Social Media Platforms’ Moderation Practices for User-Reported Rule-Breaking Tobacco Content By @gdhpearson.bsky.social, Padmini Kucherlapaty, Nathan A. Silver, Barbara A. Schillo, and Jennifer M. Kreslake 🔗 doi.org/10.54501/jot...

tsjournal.org Vol. 3 No. 4 (2026): Trust and Safety Research Conference Proceedings 2026 | Journal of Online Trust and Safety Journal of Online Trust and Safety

Thank you to our contributing authors, and to Omidyar Network for their generous support. Explore the full issue ⤵️

"AI and Agency: Benefiting Users by Understanding and Serving Explicit Aspirations" By Emily Xing, @iyerland.bsky.social, Rachel Xu, Yuning Liu, @bgoldberg.bsky.social, and Nathanael J. Fast 🔗 doi.org/10.54501/jot... #Agency #HumanAIInteraction

"The Backbone of Abuse: How Infrastructure Providers Enable the Proliferation of AI-Generated Non-Consensual Intimate Imagery" By Sarah Morgan, Hany Farid, and Sophie J. Nightingale 🔗 doi.org/10.54501/jot... #NCII #Deepfake

"Beyond Content-Based Enforcement" By Jeffrey W. Howard 🔗 doi.org/10.54501/jot... #ContentModeration #PlatformEnforcement

"Trust and Safety of Human- and AI-Powered Visual Description: A Case Study of Be My Eyes" By Natalie Grace Brigham and @yoshikohno.bsky.social 🔗 doi.org/10.54501/jot... #BeMyEyes #VisualDescription

"Mandating Data Interoperability as a Tool for Improving Youth Wellbeing on Social Media" By @alexishiniker.bsky.social, Jenny Radesky, and Marie Bragg 🔗 doi.org/10.54501/jot... #DataInteroperability #YouthWellbeing

"The Far-Reaching Implications of Brazil’s Supreme Court Decision for Platform Governance" By Beatriz Kira and Ivar Hartmann 🔗 doi.org/10.54501/jot... #IntermediaryLiability #PlatformRegulation

"Regulating the “Unregulatable”: Why Policymakers Are in Paralysis When Regulating AI" By Sarah Barrington and @hannahlsbailey.bsky.social 🔗 doi.org/10.54501/jot... #GenerativeAI #AIGovernance

"Abuse Is Not Love: Failure to Recognize Technology-Facilitated Intimate Partner Violence" By @ninajanepatel.bsky.social 🔗 doi.org/10.54501/jot... #DigitalAbuse

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dl.acm.orgAuditing LLM Responses in a Complex Policy Landscape: Abortion Law in the United States | Proceedings of the 2026 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and TransparencyYou will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.

Getting hyped to present during "The People Behind T&S Moderation" research section at 1:30pm during @techimpactpolicy.bsky.social ! If you are here, please look for me and say hello --I will be wearing bright pink glasses and a Blacksky shirt. #TSRConf #TrustAndSafety #OnlineSafety #TechPolicy

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Ro Encarnación

@rone.bsky.social

Looking forward to presenting "𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗟𝗟𝗠𝘀 𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝗔𝗯𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗟𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗪𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗴: 𝗔𝗻 𝗔𝘂𝗱𝗶𝘁 𝗔𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀 𝗨.𝗦. 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀" tommorow at the Trust and Safety Research Conference! Catch this talk at the tail end of the 10am session in the Fisher Room. I'll share a post-audit update :) #TSRConf Check out the paper here.

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Robb Willer

@robbwiller.bsky.social

🚨Come work with us! 🚨 We're hiring a postdoc for Stanford's AI for Public Benefit Lab (ai4pb.stanford.edu), in partnership with @stanfordhai.bsky.social Open to PhDs from psych, poli sci, sociology, CS, econ, HCI, data science, etc. Please share! Position: postdocs.stanford.edu/prospective/...

#TSRConf is in 1 week! Your first TSRC? Here’s what to expect. Start the day with breakfast and a keynote, then make the conference your own: choose from research presentations, lightning talks, panels, and interactive workshops across a wide range of #TrustAndSafety topics.

tip.fsi.stanford.eduThe Trust and Safety Research Conference

Between sessions, you can make connections through speed networking, poster sessions, lunches, and happy hours. Whether you come from research, industry, government, or civil society, #TSRConf is designed to bring different perspectives into the same conversation. We look forward to having you!

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Ben Lyons

@benlyons.bsky.social

I’m excited to be on a panel at the Trust & Safety Research Conference @techimpactpolicy.bsky.social on Oct 1, w @ryanmoore.bsky.social, @nadiabrashier.bsky.social & Doug Shadel. We'll be talking all about older adults & untrustworthy info online. #TSRConf #TrustAndSafety #OnlineSafety #TechPolicy

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@stephanietwang.bsky.social

Next week, I will be sharing 'Moderation for the People: How Blacksky Is Building Community Safety from the Inside Out' at #TSRConf 2026. Looking forward to conversations on the future of online trust and safety. @techimpactpolicy.bsky.social #TSRConf #TrustAndSafety #OnlineSafety #TechPolicy

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Stephanie Wang

22 Sept

Replying to @stephanietwang.bsky.social

Our preprint arxiv.org/abs/2608.18352 discusses implications for the sustainability of the open web, and for user agency as AI increasingly mediates their access to information. We’ll also be presenting at the Trust & Safety Conference on Oct 1–2 @techimpactpolicy.bsky.social #TRSConf 9/9

arxiv.orgAI in Search Reduces Publisher Referrals Without Improving User Experience: Experimental EvidenceThe integration of generative AI into web search delivers synthesized answers to user queries, changing how people navigate and assess information, while raising concerns about the downstream impacts ...

📝 New Report! #AICompanions are rapidly emerging as a new form of interaction with #AI systems that users increasingly engage with not only as tools, but also as sources of emotional support, companionship, mentorship, role-play, and intimacy. 🔗 stanford.io/4dJrvJI

Our new #AICompanions report synthesizes discussions from a multidisciplinary workshop hosted by the TIP Center and co-organized with Anthropic, bringing together researchers, industry practitioners, and civil society organizations to explore key issues and questions.

tip.fsi.stanford.eduAI Companions: Emerging Evidence, Open Questions, and Paths Toward

Dig into the report to explore the workshop's findings, including points of emerging consensus, open questions, and priorities for future research and governance. ⤵️ #AICompanions #TrustAndSafety

While these systems may provide benefits for some users, they also raise important questions regarding their effects on well-being, social relationships, and user safety, as well as how they should be designed, safeguarded, and governed. #AIChatbots #TrustAndSafety #AIGovernance

17 Sept

At #TSRConf, ideas don’t stop at publication, they move into practice. Soniya Agrawal of UC Berkeley reflects on what makes the conference distinct: a rare opportunity for academic research to connect with the #TrustAndSafety practitioners building real-world safeguards.

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17 Sept

#TSRConf 2026 begins two weeks from today at Stanford University—and there are just three days left to sign up! Register by Sunday, September 20 to join us ⤵️ #TrustAndSafety #OnlineSafety #TechPolicy

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Dhanaraj Thakur

@thakurdhanaraj.bsky.social

15 Sept

A new journal paper from me - “Our Content Should Be Treated Differently”: Race, Gender, Language, and the Experiences of Quechua Women on Social Media, published in the Journal of Online Trust and Safety by the @techimpactpolicy.bsky.social tsjournal.org/index.php/jo...

15 Sept

Registration for #TSRConf closes in less than one week! If you’ve been thinking about joining us, this is your last chance to be part of this year’s conference. Sign up by Sunday, September 20! ⤵️ 🎟️ stanford.io/3SgrmWl

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15 Sept

Don't miss this opportunity to connect with participants from across academia, industry, government, and civil society. The value of #TSRConf isn’t just in who presents, it’s in bringing people who approach today's #TrustAndSafety challenges from different angles into the same room.

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Noura Aljizawi

@noura.bsky.social

12 Sept

I’m thrilled to have our paper published in this fantastic JOTS’s special issue on Digital Intersectionality and Marginalization in the Majority World. Read more about our paper on “Queering Cybersecurity in the Age of Digital Transnational Repression” in this thread🧵 bsky.app/profile/nour...

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The Journal of Online Trust and Safety is thrilled to release its new special issue: Digital Intersectionality and Marginalization in the Majority World. 🌏 🔗 tsjournal.org/index.php/jo... #JOTS #TrustAndSafety #MajorityWorld #GlobalSouth